Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:28:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com> To: Bryan Hodgson <hodgson@EECS.Lehigh.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default software package management on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021001152625.E11396-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021001222424.GG6943@asimov.eecs.lehigh.edu>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Bryan Hodgson wrote: > > Well, this sounds to me like a "and why didn't you find an answer > to that one?" kind of problem. > > I've inherited some FreeBSD machines. And with a moderate amount > of looking I haven't been able to turn up what kind of software > package management tools are used with FreeBSD (as in pkgadd, > swinstall, rpm, & so forth ..). > > pkg_add(1), /stand/sysinstall (probably not what you want - but it will fetch and install packages if you want), and check out /usr/ports (or www.freebsd.org/ports if /usr/ports is empty or does not exist). - Jeff -- Jeff Jirsa jeff@unixconsults.com -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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